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@spinnity.bsky.social
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Mary here, figuring out what's next. I post about birds, knitting, conservation, politics, housing justice, and things that make me laugh

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
we do not have to live this way.
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spinnity @spinnity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love to see posts honoring ancestors who did the work. Gone home years ago, but still inspiring today
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 06/10/2026
plums, painted by james marion shull, 1910
plums, painted by james marion shull, 1910
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is f#cking chilling. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2/ This pathetic WaPo headline neglects to mention that the attorney general was investigating a *MAGA-aligned troll farm operator* when he was arrested. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
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Bolivia arrests its attorney general after U.S. accuses him of narco corruption
Authorities arrested 14 people, including four whom they said were sneaking cash out of Attorney General Roger Mariaca’s home and into an ambulance.
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Prop38 #California Clear reporting from @sandiegouniontribune.com "Critics view the legislation as a Trojan horse: while promising transformative medical breakthroughs, it will channel billions in state funding to a newly created institute that currently has no scientists or researchers."
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San Diego research institutions aren’t talking about Prop. 38, even though they stand to receive billions
Californians to decide if they want the state to borrow $8.4 billion to support research that aims to deliver cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease “in our lifetime.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is child abuse masquerading as due process.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/10/2026
Martin Luther speech bubble meme
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.
A tiny smoke-grey furry bat with darker face, ears and wings.  The big story is the tiny size.  The entire bat fits on a portion of a human's thumb, a tee-weeny tiny little guy.

This is a viral photo that's circulated for years, but I found it on r/BatFacts posted by u/Pardusco.
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Szynka @szynkawieprzowa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
między światami ☀️🌙 between the worlds #art #digitalart #polishart #bird #birds
A digital drawing heavily based on traditional Polish paper cutting (wycinanka) depicting a kestrel in flight, composed of two halves so that it appears double-headed. The area in its chest is a heart-shaped negative space and small symbols of sun and moon are placed in it. A bright four pointed star is placed between the heads. The negative spaces ("cutouts") in the kestrel are filled with blue, light yellow and bright orange colors that look like some sort of fluid. The background is a pink and gold sky with some clouds, resembling a sunrise.
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a sick joke
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Capital B Gary @capitalbgary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Polls open across Indiana for early voting on Tuesday, Oct. 6, allowing those who prefer to cast their ballots before Election Day to do so now. Here is what is on the ballot and where you can go to vote. bit.ly/4hCPN9r
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Gary Early Voting 2026: Lake County Locations and Deadlines - Capital B Gary
Area voters have 30 days and multiple locations to cast their ballots prior to Election Day.
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spinnity @spinnity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love seeing doors opening for young Black scientists! I hope Symorah Johnson has the best trip. Congrats on your scholarship!
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A reminder that her new album just came out and it’s good as hell
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Prism @prismreports.org · 01/10/2026
Tennessee’s support for the death penalty has only gotten more severe. In the last year, the legislature has added new justifications to execute that don’t include being found guilty of murder. Earlier this year, we published a story on abolitionists who spend time with people on death row.
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Tennessee death row abolitionists organize vigils to protest state-sanctioned murder
Volunteers who spend time with people on death row realize they are often not the same as when they committed the crime
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The evidence of being repeatedly raped and abused by multiple men as a child was deemed inadmisseable at her trial.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Musk is already responsible for the deaths of over one million people due to DOGE cuts to USAID.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 30/09/2026
An American Samoan family in Alaska facing felony voting charges unanimously rejected any plea deals. They maintained that they never intentionally broke the law, and wanted to avoid creating a precedent that could harm other U.S. nationals.
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After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We had a nice group of Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs at Sauvie's tonight. Can you tell them apart? Hint: the middle pic has one of each... #birding
Yellowlegs in the water. Greater or Lesser? One of each YellowlegsThe Other Yellowleg
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@weatherpeens.bsky.social hall of fame here.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday
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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.com · 16/09/2026
Hey all, because of my hand injury and needing to rest, and therefore inability to work at full capacity (I really shouldn't be working at all..but) ALL of my original artwork is an automatic 20% off until Sep 30. Please take a look and share! #BSNM #ArtSale #SciArt www.thornwolf.com/shop/origina...
A screenshot of my shop showing 6 of 7 original artworks that have price reduced by 20%. The most expensive piece is $160 (mountain quail), the least expensive piece is $52 (pelican)
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The famous Neolithic ‘dresser’ from House One at Skara Brae on Orkney. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Prehistory #SkaraBrae #Orkney
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 25/09/2026
#OtD 25 Sep 2003 noted Palestinian intellectual Edward Said died. A founding father of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and how Western culture has been moulded by imperialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791...
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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There’s still a few around. White-lined Sphinx moth in the garden.
A moth colored with tans, brown and white stripes, the hind wings have pink bands.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If nothing else treat it like crossing a picket line
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah, this isn't deportation. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.
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Rocío Sáenz @seiusaenz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like every worker, Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez and immigrant workers across this country deserve to go to work without fear and return home safely. We need an immigration system that recognizes their humanity, protects working families, and provides a pathway to citizenship.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
That's not an attack on fellow white collar folk, that's just an honest assessment of what people are often doing I think a lot about what I heard Dean Spade once say which is that when you put vulnerable people at the center you basically can never go wrong
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The black robin, called kakaruia in Māori, was once the world’s rarest bird. An extraordinary conservation project brought it back from brink of extinction. The tiny bird is found only in the Chatham Islands, 800km east of mainland New Zealand. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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The black robin, once down to just a single breeding pair, wins NZ bird of the year
Fondly known as the ‘goth’ of New Zealand’s bird world, the black robin now has a population of 350 adults thanks to a pioneering breeding programme
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
tiny goth bird, needs hug
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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